spirit666 dijo:En 1997 la marina australiana firmó un contrato con Kaman para la adquisición de 11 helicópteros SG-2G(A) Super Sprite por 667 millones de dólares, cifra que comprendía la modernización de los ejemplares , la instalación de nueva aviónica y la integración de los misiles antibuque Penguin. Los helicópteros estarían basados en las fragatas clase Anzac y cumplirían funciones de ataque marítimo y vigilancia naval.
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Como vemos no siempre es posible modernizar cualquier cosa. Los Seasprite son helicópteros con tecnología de los años 60’s y aunque la US Navy ha logrado incorporarle algunas modificaciones parciales, el programa australiano se han encontrado con muchos obstáculos que ni aún el propio fabricante ha podido resolverlos durante más de 5 años. Nueva Zelanda también eligió al Supersprite pero con un pack de modernización más modesto y misiles Maverick, y por el momento no afronta muchos problemas. Egipto adquirió 10 unidades, pero sólo modernizó el sistema de sonar y la marina polaca ha recibido 4 SH-2G, también sin mayores problemas. Evidentemente el Seasprite y los australiasno no se llevan muy bien…
spirit666 dijo:
Procer dijo:mm...les hicieron la kaman..jeje
Seasprite choppers cancelled
Sydney. March 21st, 2007.
The Howard Government is set to abandon a troubled $1 billion navy helicopter project.
Cabinet's National Security Committee will meet next Tuesday to close the door on the Super Seasprite program which is running almost six years late and $400 million over budget.
The Government was handed two options by expert advisers.
Either cancel it or spend at least another $100 million of taxpayer funds to meet the navy's complex requirements for 11 machines.
The original price was $667 million but $1.1 billion has already been spent without a result.
Defence Minister Brendan Nelson, who takes a hard-line approach to underperforming defence contracts, will recommend cancellation so he can ask for $1.5 billion to buy new machines.
This follows the decision to spend an unplanned $6 billion on stop-gap fighter planes and $2 billion for four heavy lift aircraft.
The new navy chopper is likely to be the Eurocopter MRH-90, a multi-role helicopter, which is being provided to the army.
Dr Nelson and defence officials have been highly critical of the Sea Sprite's builder, US firm Kaman Aerospace Corporation.
http://www.navantia.es/cgi-bin/run.dll/extranet/jsp/programa.do
EL GOBIERNO DE AUSTRALIA ELIGE A NAVANTIA PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE 2 BUQUES ANFIBIOS Y 3 FRAGATAS
20/06/07
Este contrato proporcionará carga de trabajo a la empresa durante siete años, aproximadamente
El Primer Ministro australiano, John Howard, y el Ministro de Defensa, Brendan Nelson, acaban de anunciar públicamente la decisión del Comité Nacional de Seguridad de elegir a Navantia como diseñadora de 3 destructores y constructora de 2 buques anfibios LHD.
Navantia construirá, junto con su socio en Australia, el astillero Tenix, dos buques anfibios basados en el buque de proyección estratégica que Navantia construye en la actualidad para la Armada Española. En este concurso, competía con la compañía francesa Armaris y su buque 'Mistral'.
Igualmente, Navantia ha sido elegida, frente a la americana Gibbs & Cox para el diseño de 3 destructores, basados en las F-100 que Navantia construye para la Armada Española. Navantia proporcionará el diseño y la transferencia de tecnología, pero la construcción será íntegramente en Australia, en el astillero ASC.
Tras esta decisión, a partir de este momento se abre el período de negociación de contrato, para una vez firmado el mimo, iniciar la construcción según los plazos acordados.
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/NelsonMinTranscripttpl.cfm?CurrentId=6785
Transcript of comments at AWD & LHD announcement
Canberra
E&EO ……………………………………………………………………………..
Dr Nelson:
This is a great day for the Australian Defence Force and you Prime Minister have thanked the service chiefs and others for what’s being delivered here today - $11 billion in five new ships for the Royal Australian Navy which will shape our defence force and our Navy in particular for the next 40 years. But I think it’s got to be said that we thank you for putting this country in a position where we can confidently afford to do this. We also need to recognise that this government has placed defence and security of its nation ahead of all other priorities.
The point ought to be made in relation to costs, what’s happened here is that as a result of reforms which this government undertook four years ago we’re now in a position with a rigorous process before signing off on contracts of knowing exactly what we’re getting into. We are very confident in terms of capability, schedule and price in terms of what’s going to be delivered here and no Australian would forget that when in government the Labor Party gave us the Collins Class submarines with all of the problems that were not anticipated, a billion dollars of taxpayers money had to be spent over the subsequent seven or eight years getting them up to what is now world class standard. We go into these projects today with our eyes wide open. Yes, they’re technologically advanced, yes they’re on the edge but under no circumstances as a nation are we going to be risk averse. It’s very important that Australians also appreciate that these amphibious ships escorted by the three Air Warfare Destroyers in our region will ensure that we’re able to undertake the security, stabilisation, maritime border protection, peace keeping and humanitarian and disaster relief priorities which lie before our nation for the foreseeable future.
The 48 missile cells on this ship, the Aegis Combat System on the Air Warfare Destroyer, that and many other things make it fully interoperable with our key ally the United States of America and I can assure you that the Australianisation of the Spanish F100 with larger engines, with sonar buoys, a whole variety of other capabilities will well and truly deliver the capability that the Government set for itself in the White Paper and in the subsequent updates. The amphibious ships, by the way, and the Air Warfare Destroyers between them, as the Prime Minister has said, an $11 billion investment in total. That’s about $4.5 billion specifically to be spent in Australia.
It represents a bonanza for Australian contractors. More than 1000 contractors with 3,500 new jobs throughout this country will benefit from this, not only in South Australia and Victoria, but, for example, there will be between the two projects at least $300 million in work in New South Wales. There will also be at least another $250 million of work in the state of Queensland, close to $75 million work up for grabs in southern Tasmania and (inaudible) in the state of Western Australia. This is a very important project for our defence capability, for our economic security and the confidence that Australians, especially in South Australia and Victoria, can have in their employment opportunities for the future and I would also like to personally thank and place on record my admiration and thanks to not only Steven Gumley from the Defence Materiel Organisation, but Warren King who served this country extremely well throughout his life, particularly in Navy, but in managing this project has done an extraordinary job. The alliance contracting that we’ve undertaken with the ASC and with Raytheon has been superb and I look forward very much to getting the contracts, the signature and thank all of the others that have been involved.
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/NelsonMintpl.cfm?CurrentId=6781
AUSTRALIA’S NEXT GENERATION AIR WARFARE DESTROYER
Australia’s maritime air warfare capability has reached a significant milestone today with the Government’s selection of the Navantia designed F100 as the next generation Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
At a cost of nearly $8 billion, and subject to successful contract negotiations, Navantia will work with the AWD Alliance (Defence Materiel Organisation, ASC and Raytheon Australia) to deliver three AWDs to the Royal Australian Navy.
The first of these Air Warfare Destroyers will be delivered in late 2014, followed by the second and third ships in early-2016 and mid-2017 respectively.
The Australianised F100 AWD Design is capable across the full spectrum of joint maritime operations, from area air defence and escort duties, right through to peacetime national tasking and diplomatic missions. The Royal Australian Navy will undergo a quantum leap in its air warfare capability when the F100 enters service.
Since entering service with the Spanish Navy, F100s, among their many other tasks, have worked alongside the United States Navy (USN) as the first foreign Aegis equipped ship to be fully integrated into a USN Carrier Strike Group and has successfully been deployed as the flagship of NATO’s Maritime Group Standing Reaction Force.
While the selection of the platform is a significant milestone for the AWD Programme, the work undertaken to date has demonstrated the value of the selection of the Aegis Combat System in 2004 as the central element of the AWD’s war-fighting capabilities.
This decision ensured the Navy is armed with the world’s most capable air warfare system, is interoperable with key coalition partners and can access the updates and technical support offered by the US and other in-service navies.
More than 300 highly-skilled AWD Alliance staff have been working on the development of two designs for Government consideration since 2005.
The selection of the F100 follows two years of detailed research and simulation to determine the best ship to meet the needs of the Australian Defence Force through to the middle of this century.
The F100 has been developed with modern accommodation requirements in mind and has a crew of around 200. It also provides the Navy with a growth path to accommodate tomorrow’s naval warfare technologies.
In selecting the F100, the Government has ensured the Navy will take delivery of an Aegis equipped AWD before any potential maritime air warfare capability gap eventuates.
The F100 is an existing design that is in service with the Spanish Navy. This substantially reduces the cost and schedule risks traditionally associated with a project of this size and complexity.
The Government would like to thank ASC and Raytheon Australia for their achievements as members of the AWD Alliance. ASC and Raytheon Australia have worked closely with the DMO to deliver the two costed capability options to government and will continue to play a critical role in delivering the capability to the Navy. Raytheon Australia has been confirmed as the mission systems integrator for the Air Warfare Destroyer. Raytheon Australia will be contracted to complete the design, development and procurement of the Australianised Combat System.
The Government would also like to thank both Navantia and Gibbs & Cox (designer of the Evolved Option) for their efforts in developing two very capable designs for consideration. Gibbs & Cox and the members of the Alliance’s Evolved design team should take great pride in what they have achieved over the past two years.
In 2003, the Government developed, endorsed and implemented the recommendations of the Kinnaird Defence Procurement Review. The AWD Programme has demonstrated the value of these reforms by delivering to Government robust capability, cost, schedule and risk data for government consideration at Second Pass.
The AWD Alliance has been assisted by a number of Australian and international organisations including the RAN, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, BMT Australia (formerly British Maritime Technology) and First Marine International.
The project will shortly move into the Build Phase which will give Australian Industry the opportunity to become involved in the most complex Defence acquisition ever undertaken in Australia. Work conducted by the AWD Alliance was able to determine little difference in the level of Australian Industry involvement between the two options.
The Government’s decision to build the AWDs in Australia will ensure significant levels of Australian Industry involvement in both construction and through life support.
Australian Industry will deliver products and services for around 55 per cent of the $6.6 billion AWD Programme over the next 15 years which will be followed by high value through life support contracts into the middle of the century.
While Adelaide based ASC will conduct the final assembly of the AWDs, around 70 per cent of the ship modules will be built at other shipbuilding sites around Australia, potentially including sites in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
The AWD Programme will eventually employ around 3,000 Australians in a variety of engineering and related fields working for a range of companies and suppliers throughout Australia.
The Government recognises the important work of the AWD Programme’s Probity Advisors, Sir Laurence Street and the Australian Government Solicitor, in ensuring the AWD Programme is conducted in a fair and equitable manner.
SkorpioN dijo:Cual es el costo de uno de los LHD ofrecidos a Australia y como es en detalle la operacion de construccion modular para luego terminar el montaje y botadura en Australia.
Pregunto para saber si es posible tambien repetir la operacion para la ARA, cuanto tendria que desembolsar el Estado Argentino.
Saludos!
SkorpioN dijo:Cual es el costo de uno de los LHD ofrecidos a Australia y como es en detalle la operacion de construccion modular para luego terminar el montaje y botadura en Australia.
Pregunto para saber si es posible tambien repetir la operacion para la ARA, cuanto tendria que desembolsar el Estado Argentino.
Saludos!
MAC1966 dijo:2 BPE,s= 2000 millones de $ USA
3 F-100 ausiss = 7000 millones de $ USA
Las F-100 las pongo por si acaso os interesa.
SkorpioN dijo:Navantia me imagino que aparte de esos LHD dispone de otros diseños similares pero de menores dimensiones, digamos algo entre un "San Giorgio" italiano y el mencionado LHD español; algun diseño que ronde las 15.000 ton. a plena carga con cubierta corrida, dique y espacio para unos 200 infantes pertrechados.
Se conoce algun diseño de dicho astillero de las caracteristicas comentadas o en su defecto cual seria el costo aproximado de la ton. naval construida.
Saludos!
Saludos!
KF86 dijo:¿Mas de u$s 2000 millones cada F-100? ....pero esta casi igual que las Type 45